Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones: Blu-Bop

by Geno Thackara
February 11, 2025

This group's recipe does have some blues and bop buried in there somewhere, sure, although they also pack it with several houses' worth of kitchen sinks while twisting your mind and their fingers into pretzels. This one has still aged surprisingly well, even with echo-toned banjo and the frisky beats of a custom guitar-turned-MIDI-percussion device. Well, it was the '90s. ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2018: Part 1

by John Kelman
July 5, 2018

Part 1 | Part 22018 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Various Venues, Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2018 Every return to Montréal for the city's annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is much-anticipated. Closing off six square blocks in the downtown core is rare enough; but, over the past 39 years since the festival's first edition in 1980, the program has grown to the point where it's a serious challenge to ...

Bela Fleck: Rocket Science

by Doug Collette
May 29, 2011

The musicianship on Béla Fleck and The Flecktones' Rocket Science radiates a sense of play that was missing from the group's last recorded work The Hidden Land (Columbia, 2006). There's also a sense of adventure here that hasn't really been in evidence since Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Warner Bros, 1993), the first album recorded after the departure of original Flecktone Howard Levy. After an eighteen-year absence, Levy is back in the fold on this record and ...

Enter the "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Rocket Science" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
October 26, 2011

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South African Ensemble Soweto Gospel Choir and Banjo Master Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Perform Their Own Twist on Holiday Classics at the Kimmel Center This December

Source: All About Jazz
November 19, 2008

Soweto Gospel Choir Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 8pm Verizon Hall Price: $29-61 “Dressed in a sunburst of colors, they danced, clapped, drummed and even whistled through a fast-paced program, building song after song to heart-stopping pitches of intensity." --Washington Post

Rich harmonies, earthy rhythms and vibrant garb evoke holiday spirit as the internationally-acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir performs seasonal favorites on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 8pm in Verizon Hall. ...
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